Every manager will be making a transition from managing teams remotely to managing them in the Hybrid work environment. It is important to gauge how ready are you for this. Take this quiz and find out your score.
You try to make everyone feel comfortable by asking them questions regarding their work and home schedules
Ask everyone to choose and let majority win in deciding the schedule
You go on with the agenda and tell everyone, when they have to come in as you cannot lose time discussing personal schedules
Draw up the strategy yourself as I know best the processes that need to be followed and then tell it to the team
Tell your team what the challenge is and ask for suggestions on how to meet it defining the goal
Hand over the project to your team members and ask them to come back with a plan to see if we can change the delivery
Let him/her discover the best way of working by assigning a buddy
Invite him/her into team collaborative meetings and asking them their areas of interest while assigning them a buddy
Give him/her very specific and small tasks to complete and ask them to be available to you all times incase you need to assign more work
Let it pass over as long as it is nothing major in regards to important meetings
Bring it up gently in a discussion as such issues need to be brought up
Bring it up to relevant team members in a 1-on-1
He/she is probably going out with friends
He/she is not interested in work and hence they often feel the need to take Fridays off
He/she may have some personal work and in any case if the leaves are available they have a right to take them
You give overall directions and leave it to the team member to work on it
You feel the need to give details of exactly how it needs to be done and by when it needs to be done
You give directions and ask for updates every day
You enquire about it in a casual but concerned manner to understand the issue
You ask him about the issues so that you can help solve them being there personally to ensure everything is ok
You stick to work and ask if any tasks need to be reassigned due to the personal exigency
You let him/her know that is not possible due to the lack of skill sets and convince them to do the work assigned and help reschedule
You ask him/her to build the skills required so that they can take on new type of work while helping them reschedule
You ignore the remark and continue giving more relevant work as per the skills
You tell them there will be no renegotiating with the client
You ask them why and what is possible then renegotiating with the client
You explain to them how it can be done
Include the team from inception to get ideas about feasibility
Include them for details so that they can give their input
Include them only for necessary items
Telling them the timelines and reasons of the rework
Telling them the details that need to be reworked
Giving them the benefits of the rework as well as reasons
You ask them to Take 5 while saying its ok for them to do so but as a manager you yourself will have to work 12 hours a day
You ask them if they need to reschedule some tasks for the day and Take 5
You encourage them to Take 5 and also do an stress busting activity
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